the Mirchi Girls for the inhumane act. Kannayi had other major business interests, through selling the medical seats of Mirchi Girls, presumed to be vacated by them during the course of the investigation and trial of the case - to a potential buyer charging an exorbitant sum of per seat. In his self-styled violent methods, Lal Krishna kills Kannayi and Sudarshan to deliver justice to Chinthamani and Veeramani Warrier. Though aware of the entire scenario, Jagannivasan is unable to arrest Lal Krishna, due to lack of evidence and leaves him with a small admiration for the latter. Cast Suresh Gopi as Adv. Lal Krishna Viradiyar/LK Bhavana as Chinthamani Warrier, a college girl Thilakan as Veeramani Warrier Biju Menon as ASP Jagannathan IPS Kalabhavan Mani as CI Ayyappadas Vani Viswanath as Adv. Pattammal Sai Kumar as Adv. Kannayi Parameswaran Maniyanpilla Raju as CI Bava Vijayakumar as Krishnankutty Warrier Prem Prakash as Dr. Kim Sudarshan Baburaj as Isra Khureshi Bheeman Raghu as David Rajarathnam Anil Murali as Satheeshan, Police Officer Balachandran Chullikkadu as Swaminathan Master Vinayakan as Uchandi the Beggar T. P. Madhavan as Adv. Manishankar Iyer Jibin Thomas (achayan) Poornima Anand as Volga Mariadas, Caretaker of ladies hostel 'America' Aishwarya Ajit Deepika Mohan Jisna Ali as Thara Sundaram Rekha as Gajalakshmi, LK's sister Biju Pappan as Sundaram Reception This film was released a few months after the success of Shaji Kailas - Suresh Gopi team's The Tiger. Chinthamani Kolacase went on become one of the biggest money grosser of the year 2006. This film also reaffirmed the chair of Shaji Kailas and Suresh Gopi in Malayalam cinema. The script of this film was done by A. K. Sajan, who had earlier done films like Butterflies, Janathipathyam, Crime File and Stop Violence. Box office The film was commercial success. The film ran for 100 days in major centres of its release. Remakes It was remade in Telugu as Sri Mahalakshmi starring Srihari and remade in Tamil as Ellam Avan Seyal with same director. Newcomer RK plays Lal Krishna and actress Bhama plays Chinthamani in the Tamil version and Srihari is L.K. and Shamna plays Sri Mahalakshmi in the Telugu version. The core storyline was also used in the Kannada movie Aptha. References External links 2006 films Indian legal films 2000s Malayalam-language films Malayalam films remade in other languages Films about organised crime in India Films about rape in India Indian crime thriller